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How DevOps Is Transforming IT: People, Process, Technology

In this spotlight session, Ajay Singh, VMware Cloud Management General Manager and SVP, will interview a group of our top customers about how IT can support DevOps.

As companies are continuing innovation on the path to digital transformation, they need new tools, skill sets, and organizational structures to support the new DevOps paradigms. Hear from the CIOs of some of our major customers about the challenges they have met and the solutions they have put in place, and our own VP of Engineering – the internal VMware DevOps “customer 0”.

Julie Ray,SVP, ECIO,Fannie Mae

David Coker,Senior VP, Information Systems,Polaris Alpha

Sandhya Sridharan,Vice President Engineering,VMware

Drinking our own Champagne

Learn about VMware usage of our own tools for DevOps to drive efficiencies into the VMware organization while improving products we are building for customers. We will talk about the project Cava and how we do DevOps using our own vRealize solutions at the Cloud Management Business Unit of VMware. We will show a demo of a self-service portal for provisioning the infrastructure and applications used by 450+ software developers and release engineers on a daily basis. See how we drink our own champagne!

How to Register

Planning to attend the upcoming VMworld 2017 inLas VegasorBarcelona? This is still a good time toregister, and see you soon!

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Get ready to hear some of the greatest leaders in the cloud industry discuss best practices and insights on navigating the cloud native journey during the Cloud Expert Panel Discussion [CNA3158PU] on Weds, Aug. 30. Check out the panel participants and be sure to add it to your conference schedule today.

Attendees will also hear about related VMware technologies, solutions, and best practices directly from solution providers who are in the forefront of building next gen DevOps solutions for customers.

VMworld 2017 Las Vegas is just around the corner and with over 500 session choices across all categories.I would like to help navigate to the sessions around DevOps topic. As you can see the list below, there are a LOT of them for you to choose from and update your calendars.

Monday, Aug 28

When, Session ID

Description

12:30-1:30

[LDT2523BU] Organizing and Structuring IT in the DevOps WorldLearn about the main principles that should guide the definition of a new organizational structure for IT and the roles required to reap DevOps benefits. All this with an example of a phased transition!

1:00-2:00

[DEV2858BU] The Shift to the Left: The Changing Role of Operations as Developers in a DevOps WorldThe modern Ops team is embracing and adopting software development roles. Get to understand what developers do and really care about and how can Ops teams work, measure success going forward.

1:30-3:00

[ELW182104U]vRealize Code Stream - DevOps SolutionsGet some hands-on to use vRealize Code Stream for release automation processes not just for applications but also apply the same concepts to SDDC and infrastructure components.

Tuesday, Aug 29

When, Session ID

Description

11:30-1:00

[ELW180601U]vRealize Suite - Getting Started WorkshopWalk through the integration points of the vRealize Suite, including vRealize Operations, vRealize Automation, vRealize Business for Cloud, and Log Insight. Also, learn how vRealize Code Stream Management Pack can help keep multiple environments synchronized.

2:00-3:00

[LDT2491BU] IT Transformation at VMwareThis session talks about VMware&#rsquo;s journey to enable an IT digital transformation and how they have successfully tapped the power of mobile cloud architecture to help the lines of business.

5:30-6:30

[DEV2704BU]Delivering Infrastructure as Code: Practical Tips and AdviceThis session details and demonstrates how to leverage Infrastructure as Code using VMware tools you already own with best practices from customers who have managed to master this new mindset.

Wednesday, Aug 30

When, Session ID

Description

1:00-2:00

[MGT3167GU]Managing the SDDC as CodeAs more and more of the data center becomes software, a new opportunity exists to manage IT code with the same rigor that application development teams use. Come, join us in a discussion to understand and learn from each other&#rsquo;s experiences.

1:00-2:00

[DEV1369BU] A Tale of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and How Containers/IaaS Fit into the StoryNo matter what your application architecture (microservice or monolithic), there are huge efficiencies that can be gained by leveraging infrastructure as code. Don&#rsquo;t know much about infrastructure as code or CI/CD? Don&#rsquo;t worry, we&#rsquo;ll cover the basics!

[MGT3136SU]How DevOps Is Transforming IT: People, Process, TechnologyHear from some of our major customers&#rsquo; CIOs about the challenges they met, and the solutions they have put in place. Learn about VMware’s usage of our own DevOps to drive efficiencies into its own organization while improving products for our customers.

3:30-4:30

[LDT2590BU] Speed is now a Core Competency for Enterprises: VMware IT Framework to Leverage Emerging Tech and CNA Platforms to Accelerate Delivery SpeedWaves of technology advances are hitting enterprises faster than ever before. In this session, VMware IT shares a framework that they use to leverage new technologies to drive digital transformation.

4:00-5:00

[MGT2231BU] How VMware implemented the Self-healing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using vRealize SuiteThis session is all about how VMware devised a mechanism to detect CI/CD pipeline failures and automated remediation through a self-healing solution.

Thursday, Aug 31

When, Session ID

Description

1:30-2:30

[LDT1907BU]Shifting IT from a Cost Center to an Innovation Center: VMware IT Case StudyIT is traditionally considered a cost center. Join us to learn and explore how VMware IT is driving innovation across the organization by empowering the business and employees with enterprise mobility solutions.

1:30-2:30

[MGT2716BU]vRealize Automation for the Developer CloudWhen CloudAdmins are trying to offer powerful self-service experience, developers are looking for freedom and flexibility. Come hear how vRealize Automation can address these paradoxes today, and some of our plans for how to strengthen the developer cloud story in future releases.

So, go ahead and register in advance!

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Business and IT leaders agree that data center and cloud transformation will yield big benefits, ranging from greater business agility and responsiveness to change, greater cost efficiencies and faster time to innovation for new applications.

But that doesn&#rsquo;t necessarily mean scrapping everything that already exists within the business and starting from scratch. Instead, businesses can bring their IT environment up-to-date by modernising the infrastructure, automating IT and running modern apps.

Data center modernisation is at the heart of this movement to change.

For some businesses it could mean a move to DevOps, for others it could be a shift to transforming into a digital business. Many are striving for both. Either way, data center modernisation can lead to a significant boost in speed and agility – two key attributes at the heart of DevOps and digital transformation.

Take Amdocs, a market leader in customer experience software and services. The company had a challenge to provision an environment for developers and testers to work quickly without depending on IT.

&#rsquo;Previously, it took us between three hours to three days to provision an environment, which is market standard. It wasn&#rsquo;t enough for us,&#rdquo; said Golan Remi, Head of Global Business Technologies at Amdocs IT.

&#rsquo;We needed to transform our code from development through testing for the customer in record time, so we conducted a POC with multiple private cloud vendors. The VMware solutions proved to be the closest to our requirements and the easiest to install and operate,&#rdquo; he explained.

The organisation deployed a large-scale private cloud based on VMware&#rsquo;s software-defined data center (SDDC) architecture. It allowed Amdocs to provision thousands of vApps on a daily basis as part of Amdocs&#rsquo; automated DevOps processes.

Previously it took the organisation between three days to a few weeks to create a full environment for its developers – but this has all changed.

&#rsquo;Now, a developer can come to work, press a button, go and make a coffee and when they come back the environment is ready for them,&#rdquo; Remi said.

The company is able to globally provision an environment to all of its developers and testers with zero dependency on IT, while also significantly shortening its ramp up time and being more flexible to its customers&#rsquo; needs.

Another example of a company that has been implementing a DevOps philosophy is Telefonica, the huge digital telco with more than 300 million users in 21 countries across the world.

Its Senior DevOps Manager, Gustavo Martin Bouso, said that the company took the decision to refresh its hardware and storage using the hyper-converged system.

&#rsquo;The benefits including a reduction in cost, a reduction in complexity and having a scalable system. VMware is helping us with digital transformation,&#rdquo; he said.

It&#rsquo;s clear with these examples that with SDDC technologies, customers can modernise data centers for infrastructure flexibility, security, and scalability.

To go a step further, organisations can leverage VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture, easily extending this to public clouds, giving their developers an integrated hybrid cloud environment for deploying modern apps.

This is all part of their journey towards a DevOps culture and a digital future.

Enterprise IT and DevOps teams are under tremendous pressure to efficiently deliver, operate and maintain infrastructure to support the needs of the business and its customers. It can take weeks to deliver production ready infrastructure and in response CIOs are looking for faster, self-service provisioning solutions.

Until recently, vRealize Automation (vRA) integrated with various configuration management tools (e.g.: Puppet, Chef, Salt) only via XaaS services andvRealize Orchestrator workflows. Now we are making the integration one step closer…

With the latest release ofvRealize Automation 7.3,configuration management is now a &#rsquo;first class&#rdquo; citizen in vRealize Automation.By leveraging the new configuration automation frameworknatively, customers can easily deploy, configure and manage production-ready applications with various external configuration management tools.

Puppet is the first eco-system partner to leverage the framework. With this customers can now seamlessly integrate with Puppet Enterprise directly via vRealize Automation GUI.Key capabilitiesincludes:

Configuration Management Server/Puppet Master as an end-point in vRealize Automation

Ability to do late binding whereby developers can select the Puppet Environment and Rolesat provisioning time

Ability to import/export Blueprint in a YAML format with Puppet schema attached

Support Day 2 actions (automatic purging of decommissioned nodes and reclamation of puppet enterprise node license)

With vRealize Automation (Enterprise edition) and Puppet Enterprise, customers can now quickly benefit from the fully automated delivery of applications, middleware software and services, all exposed in a self-service catalog from weeks into minutes! The out of box integrations not only simplifies the developers to create and configure the virtual machines but also continuously enforce the desired state and ensure compliance with enterprise policies.

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VMware vRealize Automation

Puppet plugin for vRealize Automation

Puppet wins VMware partner innovation award

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Enterprise IT and DevOps teams are under tremendous pressure to efficiently deliver, operate and maintain infrastructure to support the needs of the business and its customers. It can take weeks to deliver production ready infrastructure and in response CIOs are looking for faster, self-service provisioning solutions.

Until recently, vRealize Automation (vRA) integrated with various configuration management tools (e.g.: Puppet, Chef, Salt) only via XaaS services andvRealize Orchestrator workflows. Now we are making the integration one step closer…

With the latest release ofvRealize Automation 7.3,configuration management is now a &#rsquo;first class&#rdquo; citizen in vRealize Automation.By leveraging the new configuration automation frameworknatively, customers can easily deploy, configure and manage production-ready applications with various external configuration management tools.

Puppet is the first eco-system partner to leverage the framework. With this customers can now seamlessly integrate with Puppet Enterprise directly via vRealize Automation GUI.Key capabilitiesincludes:

Configuration Management Server/Puppet Master as an end-point in vRealize Automation

Ability to do late binding whereby developers can select the Puppet Environment and Rolesat provisioning time

Ability to import/export Blueprint in a YAML format with Puppet schema attached

Support Day 2 actions (automatic purging of decommissioned nodes and reclamation of puppet enterprise node license)

With vRealize Automation (Enterprise edition) and Puppet Enterprise, customers can now quickly benefit from the fully automated delivery of applications, middleware software and services, all exposed in a self-service catalog from weeks into minutes! The out of box integrations not only simplifies the developers to create and configure the virtual machines but also continuously enforce the desired state and ensure compliance with enterprise policies.

Learn More:

VMware vRealize Automation

Puppet plugin for vRealize Automation

Puppet wins VMware partner innovation award

The post Enabling DevOps with vRealize Automation and Puppet appeared first on VMware Cloud Management.

Congratulations Puppet on winning the regional VMware Partner Innovation Award! Puppet and VMware have a long history partnering that has borne fruit across multiple dimensions. Most recently the joint work across vRealize Automation and Puppet Enterprise has delivered value to our common customers in the areas of configuration management and automation.

Recently, we announced the release of Puppet plug-in for vRealize Automation, that leverages the latest Configuration Management framework provided in vRealize Automation 7.3, This integration enables our customers to model various services using a vRealize Automation blueprint, and subsequently triggers Puppet to configure and continually manage those services. As a result, customers can now seamlessly deploy, configure and manage production-ready complete stacks that include OS, middleware or applications by utilizing vRealize Automation’s powerful blueprinting, service orchestration and governance workflows, in combination with Puppet’s configuration management capabilities.

Agility is the key to accelerate digital transformation. For an IT team, this can be translated as the capability to quickly serve application developers so as to address their infrastructure, operating system, middleware, and other service needs. vRealize Automation delivers agility through enabling self-service workflows while integrating into existing IT ecosystem tools and processes. Sound ambitious? vRealize Automation makes it happen through its uniquely extensible platform, that integrates with and can cover the gamut of ecosystem tooling prevalent among our customers. Puppet, as one of the leading vendors in configuration management domain, demonstrates how VMware and our ecosystem partners together bring the best-of-breed to continuously create more value for our joint customers. Congratulations once again to Puppet and we look forward to more innovative joint solutions!

VMware is pleased to announce the availability of a new vRealize Suite ROI calculator. Download your free report today.Many VMware customers like you are also modernizing data centers and integrating public clouds to address their digital transformation agenda. VMware&#rsquo;s vRealize Suite, the market&#rsquo;s leading enterprise-ready Cloud Management Platform, can help you reach your IT goals. But how can you justify a Cloud Management Platform investment?

vRealize Suite ROI Calculator

The vRealize Suite ROI calculator can help you learn more about the key cost and benefit drivers that help to make the business case for a Cloud Management Platform. Just select the type of use case you are trying to address and adjust a few default numbers about your virtual environment. And voila! The calculator will immediately give you an estimate in terms of the potential ROI, payback period, and net benefits. You can even download a free report that you can share with your colleagues. Click here to get your free vRealize ROI report today.

Cloud Management Challenges

Like you, many VMware customers find managing today&#rsquo;s app environments is becoming more complex from increased scale, more dynamic workloads, and adoption of multi-cloud computing. Many also aspire to build and operate a private cloud that is efficient, delivers resources on a time scale appropriate for the business. And it provides a user experience that meets the expectations of Lines of Business (LOBs). Others need to manage both private and multiple public clouds in a way that allows IT to exercise an appropriate level of control without inserting intrusive governance. It should not negatively impact developer and LOB efficiency or their satisfaction with the delivered services.

Learn More

To learn more about how VMware Cloud Management Platform solutions can help you with such challenges, visit us online at VMware vRealize Suite and vCloud Suite. See how you can jump start your Modernize Data Centers initiative or Integrate Public Clouds initiative with VMware.